Chapter 135
Huainan in Jiangsu basically overlaps with Huaidong. The yamen of the two Huai Salt Transportation Commissioners is also in Yangzhou City. Yangzhou is a salt administration center. The Salt Transportation Commissioner is a third-rank official, but he dared not act rashly in front of the seventh-rank salt inspector. The censor has a low position and great power, and he is in power and is in power.
The decline of Yangzhou City was directly removed from Jiangnan in the 19th century and classified as Jiangbei. At that time, the popularity of Wu language in the north and south of the Yangtze River also surpassed the Mandarin of Jianghuai, and now it is in its heyday.
The salt merchants in Yangzhou became rich, and they were just Huizhou who came here to operate salt affairs. The millions of property were the small wealth. There were many guilds and chambers of commerce, and the total property accounted for half of the national treasury. It would be unreasonable for the imperial court to not discipline them.
"Sorry, my aunt, I am the young man who came here for the first time. Yangzhou salt merchants don't know much about Lianghuai Salt Farm." Jia Cong sat down straight: "I just saw from historical books that since the "History of Song Dynasty", it has been recorded that since the salt quotation, it has been used by hundreds of kilograms, Yuan and Ming quotations have been greatly profitable, and the national treasury is still in deficit. I am afraid that it is the result of excessive public investment and private control of officials and businessmen. The merchants raise the price of salt, but the people are still suffering."
How could Lin Ruhai not know the disadvantages of this? However, it was strange to say this from a ten-year-old man. He smiled and said, "You have hit it a little bit. If salt is long, it will cause problems and chronic diseases will be difficult to get rid of. When I was ordered, the emperor repeatedly asked the salt tax to be collected. Now, "I will not refuse many diseases and have no medicine, but I have not answered the Holy Dynasty." He was in Weiyang and could not repay the situation. I am really ashamed!"
The ancestors of the Lin family inherited the Marquis and added an additional generation of benefactors. Later, the titles of the Shun Dynasty could not be inherited from generation to generation, but they were somewhat similar to the "Fourth Class" of the Qing Dynasty. Lin Ruhai was ranked as the third in the first class, and Ruhai was not his name. Lin Ruhai was named Lin Hai, and his name was Ruhai.
The current situation is that if the wife dies, she will not reconnect if she has no children, and will be criticized. After Jia Min dies, Lin Ruhai will not fill the house or take a concubine, and his relationship will be considered as dedicated.
"That's nothing more than a reform path. Apart from the ills of reform policies, there is no other way. No matter how good the ills of government orders are, they will breed ills." Jia Cong pretended to be talking, a scholar talking on paper.
Lin Ruhai held back his smile, "How do you think it's changed?"
"The implementation of salt turbulence was called salt. Since the Ming Dynasty, salt turbulence was unimpeded, and gradually evolved into private ownership of merchants. Shangting and guest turbulence were spread across the two Huaihe Rivers (Anhui, Jiangsu and Hubei). Once they violated them, they immediately stopped the market. Salt merchants stopped the market and the people would rebel. The salt of several prefectures in Shandong also relied on the two Huai Rivers, which is of great importance."
"Therefore, my younger generation believes that the emperor has made great innovations. Why not change the salt into the bill of salt and collect it with all his strength and the government will control it. The market must not be without merchants. However, if you plan to live in the people, the salt farm will only have no households and no households, and it will be miserable. Why not give it to the peddlers and barracks. The poor peasants enter the salt farm and operate with tickets. The government will destroy the responsibilities (cash taxes). As long as they don't know, they will be irreversible when they find out..."
Jia Cong pointed to the porcelain bottle on the desk and said, "Mr. Gu, the frog is unconscious. When the water boils, it cannot escape and can only wait for death."
Lin Ruhai's eyes suddenly shone brightly, staring at the brother-in-law's concubine son, dragging his sick body, suddenly forced himself to get angry, stroked his beard and said, "Change salt into salt, isn't it changing the soup or not changing the medicine?"
"Otherwise, Master Gu, the main thing that the ticket salt price is to suppress the price of salt. If the salt price plummets and the government has closed down, will it not be the court and the people who benefited?" Jia Cong said treacherously.
Lin Ruhai's beard was more than one foot long. His white right hand suddenly stopped, looking at Jia Cong silently. In this way, it was not difficult to imagine the consequences of the salt merchants, "The box is full of gold and silver, and everyone is slandering in the blink of an eye." Jia Cong in front of him said without any mercy and sympathy. Lin Ruhai said to himself: "This boy is smart, but he is too treacherous..."
"Uh... official business has a single touch, and you know too little now. You are tired of traveling and tiring, so you can rest in my mansion for a few days, grind the time text, I will explain the matter, and then talk about it." Lin Ruhai changed the topic lightly.
Jia Cong retreated and thought to himself: "Lin Ruhai is a vested interest. Maybe he has something to do with the big salt merchants, otherwise why wouldn't he dare to give it a try? The literati, the literati, what a hypocritical group. No wonder Chongzhen said: Everyone can kill civil officials..."
Jia Lian of the Red Chamber later said that it would be great if he would make millions of money. The money for building the Grand View Garden was not allocated by the royal family. It can be imagined that it was obtained by Lin Ruhai as the salt inspector.
A seventh-rank official will never have more than one hundred taels of salary plus the integrity of the money. Lin Ruhai owns Jiangnan gardens and has assets of up to one million. How could he not be greedy or bribed?
The so-called romantic and romantic things in ancient times belonged to a very small number of privileged classes, and most people were not having a good time.
When the salt administration officials and the big salt merchants spend money like soil and whitewash the peace, the stove owners, porters, managers and fallen people in the salt farm are not allowed to boil private salt under their surveillance. The porters carry 300 kilograms at a time and travel dozens of times a day to only get a thousand cents, and they may die in the next moment. The common people will not get affordable and pertinent salt prices.
Fucking society.
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Lin Ruhai returned to the bedroom and lay down. After thinking about it, he couldn't make up his mind. At that time, Jia Yucun was recommended to Jia Zheng. Jia Yucun is currently the best way to help Xue Pan hide the charge of murder in Yingtian Mansion, and he was fond of the corpse.
Lin Daiyu personally served the medicine, and Lin Ruhai asked, "Yu'er has been in Beijing for several years. Thanks to your grandmother's care, I asked you for your father, do you like that Jia Cong?"
Lin Daiyu was shy about outsiders at this time. When her father asked this, she was very interested in arranging the funeral. She almost couldn't hold the porcelain bowl in her hand and almost fell down. She lowered her head and said, "How could my daughter have thought about those things? She is not as old as a marriage, and her parents are the ones who decide on marriage."
Lin Daiyu thought it was strange to Jia Cong. The man was very mature in his thoughts and behavior, and his literary talent and appearance were enough. But since she entered Beijing, she had eaten, slept with Baoyu, got up and sat with him, caring for each other, and was not aware of the shanghai, just like a childhood sweetheart living in Changgan. Just like in the past life, she had too many estrangements with Jia Cong, not understanding or being unfamiliar. Even if she was close to her, she was still far away. Zijuan's reminder only thought that it was Jia Cong who was a relative to relieve her father's worries.
Lin Ruhai flipped through the "Scholars" by his pillow, deeply regretting the talent of the daughter of Lu editors. Wang Siren, the father of Wang Duanshu in the late Ming Dynasty, once lamented: "There are eight children, not as good as a daughter. When he was critically ill, Lin Ruhai hoped that Daiyu was a man and inherited his family business. "For the father, I understand, you have been weak since childhood, so go down and sleep for your father."
When Daiyu closed the door, Lin Ruhai sighed and said, "It's a pity that Prince Yu has appointed you. The four major families support Prince Qin. Prince Yu's reputation is not right... I can't arrange for my daughter..."
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In the Shuanghong Tower in Yangzhou City, a salt merchant invited him. The brothers Jia Lian and Jia Cong went to visit together, ordered amaranth and cabbage-filled sesame cakes, and ordered the most famous Wuyunguan mutton in Yangzhou. They invited several Yangzhou thin horses to talk about their love and indulge in their passion.
Chapter completed!